GeForce GTX 1080 and Quadro K420 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs Quadro K420
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
Quadro K420
768
GeForce GTX 1080
Quadro K420
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
May 2016
July 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
876 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
336.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
192
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
41 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
14.02
Memory type
GDDR5X
128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB/2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
1782 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
Up to 29 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
DVI-I DP
Number of simultaneous displays
-
4
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12
CUDA
+
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
3D Vision Pro
-
+
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
Mosaic
-
+
nView Desktop Management
-
+
VR Ready
+
-